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Mary Halvorson - Code Girl flac album
  • Performer Mary Halvorson
  • Title Code Girl
  • Date of release 2018
  • Country USA & Canada
  • Style Avant-garde Jazz
  • Other formats FLAC AHX MPC AAC WAV AC3 MP1
  • Genre Jazz
  • Size MP3 1916 mb
  • Size FLAC 1858 mb
  • Rating: 4.6
  • Votes: 241

Album · 2018 · 14 Songs. The fractured rhythmic and timbral landscapes and angular melodies of Mary Halvorson’s music intermingle in new ways with Code Girl, a double album featuring vocalist Amirtha Kidambi, who sings Halvorson’s original lyrics with a determined grace. The set has an appealingly damaged art-song quality, sacrificing nothing in terms of instrumental grit.

Over some 22 albums, Halvorson has developed an expressive musical strategy that is as idiosyncratic as it is provocative; no genre seems beyond her grasp. Code Girl is not only the title of this double-length album - comprising some 14 songs and nearly 90 minutes of music - but also the name of a new quintet that includes bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Tomas Fujiwara from her Thumbscrew trio, trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, and vocalist/bandleader Amirtha Kidambi (Elder Ones).

Mary Halvorson: Code Girl by Claudio Bonomi, published on December 26, 2018. Code Girl non è solo il primo album per il quale la Halvorson ha scritto musiche e parole, ma forse quello più riuscito in termini di originalità e sintesi di linguaggio. A partire da uno studiato e particolarissimo approccio melodico, ben interpretato dalla vocalità aliena (a volte sembra un mezzosoprano) della Kidambi, sempre, comunque filtrato da una tensione continua all'improvvisazione. Tra i brani migliori la straniante Possibility of Lightning, l'intensa Storm Cloud, la frastagliata Pretty Mountain e la trascinante e melanconica The Unexpected Natural Phenomenon

Artist: Mary Halvorson.

Code Girl was Halvorson's first attempt at writing lyrics for her original works, which are sung by Amirtha Kidambi and inspired by the songwriting of Robert Wyatt and Elliot Smith. The album also features drummer Tomas Fujiwara, bassist Michael Formanek and Blue Note trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire. Code Girl is named after an offhand remark by her teacher Anthony Braxton, who used the phrase.

Complete your Mary Halvorson collection. Code Girl ‎(2xCD, Album). Firehouse 12 Records. Code Girl ‎(14xFile, FLAC, Album).

Code Girl features Halvorson, Akinmusire, vocalist Amirtha Kidambi, the elastic underpinning of Michael Formanek on double bass, and the polyrhythms of Tomas Fujiwara on drums. Code Girl is a sobriquet from Anthony Braxton, one of her mentors at Wesleyan and with whom she performed as a member of his Diamond Curtain Wall trio and orchestra. Since then, Halvorson has been ubiquitous, expanding her art with each new recording, traveling quite a highly-successful, highly-acclaimed, very collaborative, chameleon-like, circuitous, very eclectic musical route. And there is so much more to enjoy on this album which is yet another great addition to the Mary Halvorson discography.

Code Girl is the terrific debut from what might be her most ambitious band, a quintet for which she not only wrote music, but also lyrics. The core of the ensemble-bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Tomas Fujiwara-work with her in the long-running collective Thumbscrew.

Tracklist

A1 My Mind I Find In Time 6:43
A2 Possibility Of Lightning 6:17
A3 Storm Cloud 10:00
B1 Pretty Mountain 6:19
B2 Off The Record 5:36
B3 In The Second Before 5:48
B4 Accurate Hit 4:09
C1 The Beast 5:58
C2 The Unexpected Natural Phenomenon 11:29
C3 Thunderhead 5:01
D1 And 6:27
D2 Deepest Similar 8:14
D3 Armory Beams 1:08
D4 Drop The Needle 7:00

Companies, etc.

  • Copyright (c) – Firehouse 12 Records
  • Copyright (c) – Mary Halvorson
  • Recorded At – Firehouse 12

Credits

  • Bass – Michael Formanek
  • Drums – Tomas Fujiwara
  • Graphics, Design – Megan Craig
  • Guitar – Mary Halvorson
  • Music By, Lyrics By – Mary Halvorson
  • Producer – David Breskin, Mary Halvorson, Nick Lloyd
  • Recorded By, Mixed By, Mastered By – Nick Lloyd
  • Trumpet – Ambrose Akinmusire
  • Voice – Amirtha Kidambi

Notes

Includes custom printed inner sleeves w/ lyrics and download card.

Edition of 500.

Recorded December 16th & 17th, 2016 at Firehouse 12.

℗ © 2018 Firehouse 12 and Mary Halvorson.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 711574834310

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
FH12-04-01-027 Mary Halvorson Code Girl ‎(2xCD, Album) Firehouse 12 Records FH12-04-01-027 USA & Canada 2018
none Mary Halvorson Code Girl ‎(14xFile, FLAC, Album) Firehouse 12 Records none US 2018